with a solder sucker to suck solder, can that solder be reused again?LED beads may be attached in two different ways. Either a dab of thermal grease or thermal adhesive and then soldered in place (making sure the positive and negative are on the correct poles).
The majority of these LED's simply use thermal grease. So to remove, use a solder iron and either a solder sucker or solder wick to remove the old bead. The new bead gets a very small dab of thermal grease and is soldered back in.
My experience with those attached with thermal glue required that I destroy the old bead to get it out. Again, gluing is not found in many of these CBB's. Actually the only fixture I've worked on with thermal glue were Fathom Hydra's (now out of business) Here's what I usually end up with after removing the glued bead.
the SBREef;lights LEDS are weird. They seem to have Solder on the center of the LED...LEd must be destroyed and heated on center to melt the solder and pop off metal base!!!! the + and - were easy to remove solder...but the center is hard!! unless one has trick to share!!!!
The diodes in my unit were glued down too. Could not pull them off to save my life. I had to use a tiny flathead screwdriver from an eyeglass repair kit and lightly tap it under each one to pop them off.
do you need to heat it with the solder gun?????? before you try to pop it off?
what you use to tap the flathead screwdriver with?
I was using the pliers to tap on the screwdriver, but just because they were right next to me. If you had a small hammer, that would work too. I was able to save the leds with out breaking them, and even reused them.
Thank you much helped!!!This is the screwdriver I used
